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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane What About Russia? Farasites by Plane What, No Prisons? Mixture at Topcock The New York Evening Journal :ays Governor Roosevelt is seriously ser-iously considering "the advisability c; leccgnizin; Russia's government govern-ment after March 4." hus.-ia has always been friendly to this country and it is not the business cf the United States to tell Russia what kind of government, govern-ment, she must have. We don't like thrir kind, they don't like ours. But there is no reason why we ihnnlrl hfi rude or silly about it. There is business to be done in Russia and there will be more business bus-iness later for the Russians are not failing in accordance with the predictions, of our "best winds." Russia has said unpleasant things about us, but we have said worse things about Russia. We need business, and Russia has it. That is the main thing and if we could recognize the brutalities of czardom, why not sovietism? Deeds, not words, distinguish the Russians. The other day 25,000 Moscow white collar workers were put to work on farms, to teach them efficiency. Now the Soviet government rules that any worker who "loafs one work day a month" shall be discharged. dis-charged. It would surprise 12,000,000 A-mericans A-mericans looking for jobs to hear that this severity is made necessary neces-sary by Russia's shortness of labor. There are jobs for everybody, even women and children. Scientists say insects might have conquered the world, preventing the survival of men. , They might even rule the world yet. Meanwhile, in addition to being dangerous, insects can be useful. For instance, Australia sent gifts of Lady Bugs that kill the scale that destroys fruit trees, to California Cal-ifornia and Florida. Now Florida, grateful, sends to Australia, from her agricultural department, six hundred pumpkin bugs. Australia has pumpkin bugs, they destroy crops, but Australia's "pumpkin bugs lack parasites." Each of the six hundred bugs sent from Florida to Australia will go with innumerable small bug-killing bug-killing parasites attached to its leg. These many legged ambassadors of good will will travel from Florida Flor-ida by airplane with a man pilot. You couldn't make the pumpkin bug or its parasites believe that there is any such thing as a man pilot. You can't make some pumpkin human beings believe that there is any such thing as a God. The next few lines will interest Europe, and amuse "I told you so" wets, who said prohibition wouldn't work. The Attorney General Gen-eral announces that, in view of the "wet vote," he will not ask for money to build more Federal prisons. pri-sons. All the United States jails were overflowing with bootleggers and their employes and more were to be built at once. The Attorney General thinks they won't be needed now, which will surprise sincere prohibitionists, prohibition-ists, who believed that prohibition would empty jails, insance asylums asy-lums and poor houses. At Topcock, Arizona, where the railroad and automobile bridges V cross the Colorado River, modern ways and wild nature are mixed -A flock of gasoline stations lie in -wait for touring cars. Men with f guns lie in wait for wild ducks I ' and geese,- "Canadian honkers." v They are plentiful here. And here the Colorado River, unconscious uncon-scious of all changes, continues to roll as it chooses. W To the east ycu see green trees and grass growing where the river bed once was. The Santa Fe Railroad Rail-road has been three times compelled compel-led to move its tracks southward, f at the river's command. Part of ,r the old track bed still stands at ?, the river's edge, and recently the Colorado, lazily avoiding a sand L bar of its own construction, has ! eaten the land away within a ft-w .! feet of the paved highway. But soon Hoover Dam wall will hold back these turbulent waters and the big river, like the rest of us. coerced by civilization, will be- , have. re1 Seme Americans, considering the f gold dollar a good substitute for f the golden cali of old, are worried , because "Canada is inflating her J currency." Canada has just sold $35,000,000 worth of 4 per cent x treasury bills running two years. ? Canadian banks have taken them f at a profit to themselves of 1 per cent and will put out Canadian currency. If a country as rich as Canada cannot afford to issue $35,000,000 " worth of notes or currency, it " might as well close up now. c Canada, our best customer, is a good friend, although we bicker ' occasslonally. But she must do ' business with the cheap pound ' sterling on one side and the dear 1 American dollar on 1 the other, ' which means, "between the devii ' and the deep sea." Canada has 1 done a good job, balancing herself ' on the financial tight rope, that ' stretches from the proud Ameri- ' can dollar to the distressed maternal ma-ternal British pound. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Monsen and family of Salt Lake were Thanksgiving Thanks-giving visitors in this city, guests of relatives. |